Miami rape suspect turns himself in

MIAMI — A man suspected of raping and assaulting two women inside abandoned houses in Liberty City was arrested and charged on Saturday, a Miami Police Department release said.

Kevin Puritan Outten, 29, turned himself in, the release said. He was suspected of the crimes after both victims picked him out of a lineup.

Police charged him with one count of attempted murder and two counts of armed sexual battery, an arrest affidavit said.

Outten is suspected of raping a sixteen-year-old girl at knifepoint and on a separate occasion raping a woman and bludgeoning her repeatedly with a hammer. Both incidents took place over the last month.

In the early morning of August 13, a woman was walking west on NW 61st Street when a man she identified as Outten grabbed her around the neck and dragged her into an abandoned house.

The man hit her over the head with a hammer, then raped her until she lost consciousness, the release said. When she regained consciousness, he hit her with the hammer again until she passed out for a second time. After waking up once more she crawled from the house and called police. She had multiple fractures to her head following the attack, the release said.

Around 2:30 a.m. on September 6, a sixteen-year-old girl walking along NW 12th Avenue Street in Miami was approached by a man she identified as Outten. The man offered to walk her home, the release said. When she refused, he picked her up and took her into a nearby empty house.

The man told her, "You owe me, you gonna give me what I want," Outten's arrest affidavit said. The man cut the girl with the knife and then raped her, the affidavit said.